Lost on Virgin next season?

[KenK]

Originally Posted by VMNick

... I would like to see a "Virgin 1" only for Virgin TV customers! And then they should buy the rights for ...

I'm not sure it's as simple as that. The owners of those rights will consider not only how much the buyer is offering to pay, but how much awareness their programmes will get, and how much that will affect their spin-off commercial activities. I suspect the big money is not in the programme rights, but in the sale of Simpsons' etc merchandise ... and the value of that depends on the number of people able to watch the programme.

"Virgin 1" with the "hit TV shows" would not be viable as a cable-only channel; VM could not afford to out-bid Sky, the advertisers would not be interested in the reduced audience potential. It would only work if it was available on satellite, and in the current climate, I don't imagine Sky would be too keen to add it to their delivery service for a reasonable fee.

Maybe it's time for the regulators to split "delivery" from "content", and force the content providers to make their product/channel available to all delivery methods on the same price basis - £"x" per "y" potential viewers, perhaps; or if it's VOD, £"0.xx" per view.

[Toto]

Originally Posted by renton

I got told the same thing by a manager about 3 weeks ago. According to him it's in the bag. A few weeks before that we were told that they were going to try because they had head hunted a guy from whatever company sells it. So you sky heads - keep grinning whilst you can. A few more seasons and they'll probably get the football too...

Sky was reported as obtaining season 3 at nearly 1M per episode. Given that figures for Sky 1 were dropping even with LOST, I really don't see how VM can afford season 4.

Loved to be proved wrong though.

[twinkle]

lost is on the net at very good quality even before the two uk sparring partners get sky/virgin.look and ye shall find

[bioboy]

Correctamundo!

[Philgo]

Originally Posted by twinkle

lost is on the net at very good quality even before the two uk sparring partners get sky/virgin.look and ye shall find

Thanks twinkle, I never went without.

[Danjmarsden]

I think i will just have to watch it online for free myself i know exactly where to find it when it comes out.

[howden]

Any ideas on what month this year series 3 will be coming on VoD ?

Thanks

[REDLAND]

Originally Posted by twinkle

lost is on the net at very good quality even before the two uk sparring partners get sky/virgin.look and ye shall find

AND don't forget Season 3 Starts next Thursday so get them torrent sites warmed up for Friday morning

[Tod]

So where is this Lost series 3 we were getting in 2007????

[v0id]

Originally Posted by REDLAND

AND don't forget Season 3 Starts next Thursday so get them torrent sites warmed up for Friday morning

You mean season 4

[REDLAND]

Originally Posted by v0id

You mean season 4

your right, I do